On the day last week when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was delivering a speech at the United Nations bemoaning the Iranian nuclear arms deal and those around the world “rushing to embrace and do business with a regime openly committed to our destruction,” a report from Goldman Sachs points to “The Awakening of Another Oil Giant” in Iran.
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
2016 Annual Report on Corporate Governance and Shareholder Activism by Proxy Monitor James R. Copland and Margaret M. O’Keefe Executive Summary One way shareholders exert influence over corporations is by introducing proposals... Read More
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Chris Davis is the current CEO of Davis Advisors, the investment manager founded by the Davis family that follows the principles of legendary value investor Shelby Cullom Davis. The... Read More
Federal Reserve policymakers could start to raise their target interest rate as soon as March and shrink the central bank’s balance sheet as a next step in response to... Read More
Former New York City Mayor and perhaps the region’s biggest champion Michael Bloomberg made an amazing statement recently. "Too many events where people are breaking the law" In an interview on... Read More
One of the lessons of the financial crisis was that repo markets, OTC derivatives, and other asset markets caused financial institutions to be far more interconnected, and the whole... Read More
Howard Marks, co-chairman at Oaktree Capital, discusses high-risk debt markets and the future of hedge funds. He speaks on "Bloomberg ‹GO›." (Source: Bloomberg) Howard Marks: High-Risk Debt Market Changes 'Very... Read More
Noting the “near zero price elasticity” in oil due to sunk costs of existing wells, John Brynjolfsson, a veteran of PIMCO and the chief investment officer of Armored Wolf... Read More
Many hedge fund managers and other well-known names in the financial industry engage in philanthropy, and Goldman Sachs is no different. Of course, investment income plays a significant role... Read More
Exec Compensation is a complicated subject. On one hand, there are those who believe executives should be paid a modest income, perhaps linked to the pay of an average... Read More
